Assembly Assembly may refer to: Organisations and meetings * Deliberative assembly, a gathering of members who use parliamentary procedure for making decisions * General assembly, an official meeting of the members of an organization or of their representa ...

elections was held in Maharashtra, India in two phases on September 5, 1999, and September 11, 1999. Election results were declared on October 7, 1999. The major parties were

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Shiv Sena Shiv Sena (IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a Right-wing politics, right-wing to Far-right politics, far-right Marathi people, Marathi Regionalism (politics), regionalist and Hindu nationalism, Hindu ultranationalist political party in India f ...

(Yuti) alliance,

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and NCP.

and NCP contested against each other without a pre-poll alliance but came together for a post-poll alliance to stake claim to form the government.

Vilasrao Deshmukh Vilasrao Dagadojirao Deshmukh (26 May 1945 – 14 August 2012) was an Indian politician who served as the 14th Chief Minister of Maharashtra, first term from 18 October 1999 to 16 January 2003 and second term, from 1 November 2004 to 5 ...

became

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, and NCP's Chhagan Bhujbal became Deputy CM.

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elections were held simultaneously, and in them, the BJP-Sena alliance fared better winning 28/48, with Shiv Sena winning 15 seats, BJP 13 seats, Congress 10 seats, and NCP 6 seats.

Results

List of Political Parties participated in 1999 Maharashtra Assembly Elections. Summary of results of the Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1999

Region-wise breakup

Alliance-wise

Alliance-wise results

References

{{Maharashtra State Assembly election State Assembly elections in Maharashtra 1990s in Maharashtra 1999 State Assembly elections in India